Grandpa is So Old...
True story reported yesterday from my daughter:
Ryan (my grandson, age 6): Grandpa is old, isn't he?
Mom (my daughter): Why do you ask?
Ryan: I was just wondering about when he was a kid. Were all the TV shows on his iPad in black-and-white?
And to think that I used to be proud of the fact that I was the first student in my high school to own a cassette tape recorder — a marvelous Norelco that I still remember fondly. I also remember my first three cameras — a Praktica FX2, a Mamiya 500TL, and a Yashica Mat 124G — with a nostalgic mist in my eyes. Purchase prices: $35 (used), $119 (new), $125 (new). Ah, so many cameras ago . . .
Yes, Ryan, Grandpa is old.
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First two cameras: Canon G-111 QL17 and a Minolta XD-11, the first ever camera with both aperture and shutter priority modes. I was stylin'!
Posted by: Chuck Kimmerle | 03/14/2013 at 11:27 AM
When I was 16 (1965) I was lucky to have a school trip to Russia. It was just before the time the first colour TVs appeared. On arrival I was truly shocked to discover that Russia was in colour, not black and white. I took a Voigtlander Vito B, my first real camera, and a few rolls of Agfa colour slide film. That got me started.
Posted by: Steve Gledhill | 03/14/2013 at 12:50 PM
My first was the Mamiya 1000 dtl (1973, new)
Posted by: Ted Griffith | 03/14/2013 at 12:52 PM
Oh, the memories. Nikkormat FTN from 1968. Still have it. Still use it occasionally. CLA'd several years ago and works like new! Wonder how many 4 to 7 grand full frame digital cameras will be around 45 years from now? ;-)
Posted by: Montie Talbert | 03/14/2013 at 04:04 PM
Minolta SR-T
Posted by: brYan | 03/19/2013 at 07:58 PM
Old is Gold for the all old cameras.
Posted by: David Fischer | 03/29/2013 at 03:21 AM